In a brazen move, the Judicial Inquiry Commission (JIC) of the State of Alabama has hired John Carroll, a former Legal Director of the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), to prosecute its politically motivated charges against Chief Justice Roy Moore of the Supreme Court of Alabama. The SPLC filed the complaints with the JIC and now the JIC has chosen the former Legal Director of the SPLC to represent it.

"I have almost no words for this corrupt and unjust system," said Mat Staver, Founder and Chairman of Liberty Counsel, which represents Chief Justice Moore. "We have said that the charges are politically motivated and that the JIC violated its own rules of confidentiality. You would think that the JIC would be astute enough to at least avoid an appearance of bias, but obvious the JIC does not care. This is a brazen act that calls into question the entire JIC process," said Staver.

The travesty of the politically motivated charges by the JIC against Chief Justice Roy Moore have become even clearer with the appointment by the JIC of a former Legal Director of the same organization that filed the charges. This is a miscarriage of justice of the highest sort.

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